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Tehran is prepared to resume nuclear negotiations with Washington as long as it is treated with "respect" and "respect", Tehran's foreign minister has stated.

The Iranian diplomat said exclusively dialogue worked, and revealed new appeals had come from go-betweens to restart negotiations with the US government. He claimed Iran possessed no unreported enrichment locations, and Iran had not yet reached a point to authorize the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit struck enrichment centers for security reasons.

Walking a Challenging Course

The foreign minister is navigating a challenging path since Iran aims to avoid be perceived to be proceeding from a position of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out more powerful defensively and mentally from the coordinated strike on its atomic facilities in June.

He was speaking at a defense forum in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to enrich uranium domestically that it will never give up" – the key factor of the deadlock in the prior discussions.

Prior Discussions Abruptly Ended

The previous five rounds of talks between the United States and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and acrimonious conclusion on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, struck Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that ended with the US president asserting the sites had been eliminated. Following this, European countries exercised their authority to reinstate global restrictions, but Iran asserts they have not had a major impact.

Magic Solution Proposed

Iranian officials said they felt they had achieved a "perfect agreement" to the nuclear fuel concern in previous talks, when it was agreed an local partnership with US participation could process nuclear material. Each party would have been able to claim victory since home-based processing would have remained and the US could be confident that Iran's nuclear programme was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been agreed in the talks that US nuclear scientists could operate on Iranian soil, but that was a natural consequence of the partnership suggestion. Officials asserted repeatedly they had reached agreement with Washington's diplomat the American negotiator only for the agreement to disintegrate due to "opponents in the US".

Present Status

Tehran representatives stated the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the suggestion could be resurrected in various formats if negotiations resume.

The US president last week claimed he had been obtaining communications that Iran desired to reopen negotiations, but privately Iranian officials claim they are not yet obtaining consistent overtures from America either straightforwardly or from key regional mediators, such as Qatar, Egypt, Oman and the Saudi kingdom. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been accused of non-responsiveness in the wake of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Iran says diplomacy is not part of a performance.

Negotiating Position

In his address to the gathering, designed to depict the US as a controlling nation that misuses the concept of international law, the foreign minister declared the two-week conflict showed the conflict could not be settled by military means. He stated the strikes commenced with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and concluded with an unconditional call for a truce.

Iran is certain the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were carried out with full US knowledge and cooperation, making confidence hard to rebuild.

Dialogue Remains the Final Resolution

The foreign minister stated: "It was not Iran that had deserted diplomacy; it was the United States and the European states that had always attempted to enforce their desires during the talks. Dialogue can still be alive and remains the ultimate answer to address disagreements, but its requirements, regulations and fundamentals must be respected."

"If they speak to the citizens of Tehran with the approach of respect and honor, they will obtain a answer in the equivalent language."

Repair and Recovery

In what is characterized by Iranian officials as the conflict of recovery and rebuilding, Araghchi said he was assured Iran's defence capabilities "are considerably enhanced than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been restored. We learned many lessons from this war; we have come to know our internal vulnerabilities and the weaknesses of the enemy."

He added: "We successfully passed this engagement. Our nuclear technology, which they planned to destroy, continues to exist. The sites and gear, if eliminated, will be restored; what is essential is the resolve of the nation of Iran and then the social solidarity that they targeted, but were unable to destroy. The citizens of Tehran have become stronger, more united, and more backing of the government and the nation in the face of this invasion."